{"id":262242,"date":"2017-10-13T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=262242"},"modified":"2017-10-13T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:02:23","slug":"carol-still-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/carol-still-contention\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol still in contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262252\" style=\"width: 763px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/carolpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Lee, seen here getting ready to serve, is in the quarterfinals of the singles and doubles event of the 30th Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Cup that is being played in Malaysia. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is still in the race for the singles and doubles titles in the 30th Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the singles event, Lee won her first two matches to move into the quarterfinal round of the 48-player field. The No. 8 seed debuted with an impressive 6-0, 6-0 victory over Nursharneem Shamsudini of Malaysia last Wednesday at the Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association Centre in Kuching. The Commonwealth bet then was pitted against China\u2019s Yuijiao Chen in yesterday\u2019s third round and posted a 6-2, 6-4 triumph to make it to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In the Round of 8 that will be played today, Lee will have a tougher foe in the No. 1 seed Qinwen Zhang of China. Zheng marched into the quarterfinals after sweeping Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Ssu-Yi Wu, 6-2, 6-0, and Australia\u2019s Megan Smith, 6-3, 6-3. Smith entered Round 3 following a 6-3, 6-4 victory against Indonesia\u2019s Joleta Budiman, 6-3, 6-4, while Wu made it to Round 2 after eliminating the Philippines\u2019 Rafaella Jean Villanueva, 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng and Lee are at the top half of the draw and are joined in the quarterfinals by Thailand\u2019s Mannanchaya Sawangkaew and Australia\u2019s Olivia Gadecki. At the bottom half, three of the four Round of 8 berths were already taken with No. 2 and Korea\u2019s Sohyun Park, Japan\u2019s Sakura Hosogi, and Australia\u2019s Ivana Popovic qualifying. China\u2019s Jiaqi Wang and Kazakhstan\u2019s Anastassiya Astakhova will battle for the last quarterfinal ticket today.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles event, Lee and her Australian teammate Chiara Di Tommaso are also in the quarterfinals. The No. 6 pair drew a bye in the first round and then topped India\u2019s Annika Kannan and the U.S.\u2019 Anjali Mogili, 6-2, 6-3, to advance to the quarterfinals. Lee and Di Tommaso\u2019s next opponent are India\u2019s Sailsa Aher and Indonesia\u2019s Joleta Budiman, who came from a 0-6, 7-5, 10-7 upset win over No. 2 seed Hosogi and Wang.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing tournament in Sarawak is Lee\u2019s second competition in Malaysia and it is a Grade 3 event, offering more ITF Juniors ranking points. In last week\u2019s 1st ITF Perlis Junior Championship 2017, the 15-year-old Lee got 20 points for placing second in the doubles and another 20 for her semis appearance in the singles play. <\/p>\n<p>Sixty and 45 ranking points will be given to the singles champion and runner-up in the 30th Sarawak Chief Minister\u2019s Cup, while the doubles winners will receive 50 and the second finishers will get 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is still in the race for the singles and doubles titles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":262252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[195,169,653,18606],"class_list":["post-262242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-malaysia","tag-sarawak-chief-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}